Backyard & Outdoor Living in Hidden Hills

City of Hidden Hills Building and Safety Department. Permits come from the City of Hidden Hills Building and Safety Department, whose plan check, permit issuance and inspection services are provided under contract by Transtech. The City does not issue a building permit until the Hidden Hills Community Association Architectural Committee has approved the exterior design, and that approval covers dwellings, garages, stables, pools, courts, fences and accessory structures. The community's one-acre minimum building site rule and recorded bridle-trail easements both constrain where structures can physically go. The city falls within a very high fire hazard severity zone under CAL FIRE's 2025 local responsibility area mapping. We prepare the drawings, make the submittal and handle plan-check corrections ourselves, so you are not the one chasing the city.

One-acre minimum building sites, mostly flat to gently rolling, with barns, arenas and long private driveways and enough rear yard to plan a pool, guest structure and equestrian improvements as one project. In practice that means recorded bridle trail easements cross most parcels and dictate where a pool, guest house or perimeter fence can actually be placed..

All of it, including Ashley Ridge, Long Valley Road, Round Meadow, Jed Smith Road. We are based in Los Angeles at Cahuenga Pass, so Hidden Hills is a short run for our crews rather than a job we service from out of the area.

Full backyard transformation in this market generally runs $50,000 to $250,000+. What moves it is how much hardscape is involved, whether a pool or outdoor kitchen is included, grading and retaining, and the level of lighting and planting. We give line-item pricing after seeing the site rather than quoting a number over the phone.

A patio and turf refresh often finishes in three to five weeks. A full transformation with hardscape, an outdoor kitchen, structures and lighting typically runs ten to sixteen weeks, and longer if a pool is part of the same phase.

Pavers cost more up front but flex with ground movement instead of cracking, and individual units can be lifted and replaced. Poured concrete is cheaper initially, but a crack means cutting out and repouring a section that rarely matches. On most Southern California soil we recommend pavers for anything you will look at every day.

Yes, and on most projects we insist on it. Correcting grade and adding proper drainage while the yard is already open is far cheaper than retrofitting it after new hardscape is down.

Yes. Design, permits, hardscape, structures, kitchen, lighting and planting run through one team and one project manager, so nothing gets lost between trades.